Creative Planning Micro-Intensive with Robyn Braun (Online) — March 31, 2025

The intensive will run for 1.5 hours with periods of presentation, periods for participants to write and reflect, and periods for participants to share into the space.

First, we will consider writing habits. For this portion of the intensive, I will provide participants with prompts and structures for reflecting upon and modifying their writing habits. Following Helen Sword’s work in Air, and Light, and Time, and Space, we will consider our behavioural, artisanal, social and emotional habits that both support and hinder our writing practices.

The intensive will wrap with a nuts-and-bolts discussion of the writing process, and time management. We will discuss writing software, such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener. I will suggest a planning process for mapping projects backward using quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily planners.

About Robyn Braun

Robyn Braun lives at the northern edge of Alberta’s Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton, with a kick-ass 13-year-old and a cat named Fuzzy. Her essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter” won subTerrain’s 2021 Lush Triumphant Prize for CNF. She earned her MFA through UBC’s School of Creative Writing in 2022 and in 2024 her novella, “The Head,” came out with Enfield and Wizenty Press. She is at work on an illustrated novella in verse